Centre for Hellenic Studies Public Events
Through its regular weekly seminars, colloquia, public lectures and international conferences, the Centre for Hellenic Studies is a concentrated force for the advancement of research in all aspects of Hellenic culture.
All its activities are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience.
Public Events Diary 2012-13
Weekly CHS seminars in Late Antique & Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Studies take place on Tuesdays at 17.30
Small Committee Room - K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
Friday 31 May
The Place of Hell: Topographies, Structures, Genealogies
K2.29, Council Room, Strand Campus
This conference is part of the Leverhulme International Network Project 'Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-Dominated Crete (13th-17th Centuries)'. Co-organised by King's and the Warburg Institute
Friday 31 May 13.00 - 15.30
Cultural Dynamics and Creativity in Digital Europe
Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
A panel and discussion aimed at exploring lessons learned and questions which arise from the first HERA joint Research Programme.
Saturday 8 June
Ravenna - its significance in European development
Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House
A workshop organised in collaboration with IHR and the Mayor of Ravenna.
Monday 10 June - Tuesday 11 June
Cyprus and Cilicia 12th-14th c.: Material aspects of the world of the Crusades
Room G22/26, Senate House, University of London
The joint Newton Fellowship and Annual ICS Byzantine Colloquium
Thursday 13 June 18.00 - 19.30
Cultural Heritage in Wartime: The Work of Blue Shield
K2.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of War Studies
Tuesday 18 June 18.00 - 19.30
Lentakis Award Ceremony
Council Room, King's Building, Strand Campus
Monday 1 July - Saturday 6 July
Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry
The 39th International Byron Conference will examine Byron’s engagement with politics in the widest sense: as a poet, as a member of the House of Lords, as a commentator on his time, and latterly as a would-be revolutionary.
Next Academic Year...
Wednesday 4 September - Friday 6 September
Byzantium and British Heritage: Byzantine influences on the Art & Crafts Movement
Safra Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus
This conference opens a dialogue between specialists on the Byzantine world and on the Arts and Crafts Movement (organised by the British School at Athens in conjunction with the Centre for Hellenic Studies).
Saturday 30 November 10.00 -18.00
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Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King's Building
Presented by the Onassis Foundation and the Centre of Hellenic Studies. Part of The Athens Dialogues series.
Past events...
Tuesday 9 October 17.30 - 19.30
Cities in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Ioanna Rapti
Tuesday 16 October 17.30 - 19.30
The political economy of South-East Europe: Can the Asian financial crisis 1997/8 serve as lessons learnt for the EU economic crisis today?
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Diana Bozhilova (King’s College London & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Tuesday 23 October 18.00 - 20.00
Peter Heather's inaugural Lecture: The Conversion of Constantine and the Christianisation of Europe
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
Part of the Arts & Humanities festival
Tuesday 30 October 17.30 - 19.30
The Vostizza (Eghio) District of the Peloponnese c. 1700: Reconstructing the Geography
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Professor Malcolm Wagstaff (Norwich)
Tuesday 13 November 17.30 - 19.30
The pilgrimage site of St. Michael at Germia in Central Anatolia
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Philipp Niewohner (Oxford)
Wednesday 14 November 19.00 - 20.30
Greek Archaeological Committee Annual Lecture
The Prehistoric Site of Skarkos on the Island of Ios: expanding horizons of Cycladic Archaeology
Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus
A lecture by Dr Marisa E Marthari, Ephor Emerita of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities in the Greek Archaeological Service
Tuesday 20 November 18.30 - 20.30
Sounds of the Greek World and Beyond: The travel writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
A lecture commemorating Patrick Leigh Fermor by the Society for Modern Greek Studies and the Centre for Hellenic Studies, London
Friday 23 November 18.00 - 20.00
Displaying Cyprus
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
A lecture introduced by Thomas Kiely (British Museum) with Antoine Hermary (University of Nanterre) and Jannic Durand (Louvre Museum), followed by a reception
Tuesday 27 November 17.30 - 19.30
Christianity and Philosophy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A panel discussion led by Niketas Siniossoglou (King's College London). Co-hosted with the Department of Philosophy
Tuesday 4 December 17.30 - 19.30
Levantines in the making: building a plural identity in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Smyrna
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Viviana Tagliaferri (SOAS). Part of the Greek-Turkish Encounters series
Thursday 6 December 10.00 - 13.30
Aristotle Transformed, 200-600 CE
Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus
A workshop which is part of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project: 1985-2012.
Tuesday 11 December 17.30 - 19.30
The origins of the Byzantine Sarcophagus Reliquary
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Georges Kazan (Oxford)
Saturday 12 January 11.00 - 18.00
In the Shadow of Father and Son: John II Komnenos and His Reign
K2.29, Council Room, King's Building, Strand Campus
One day workshop on John II and his reign.
Tuesday 22 January 17.30 - 19.30
Byzantium and the Arts and Crafts: tracing the modern in Byzantine monuments of 19th-century Greece
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Dimitra Kotoula (British School at Athens).
Tuesday 29 January 17.30 - 19.30
Language and Music, National Identity and Orthodoxy: ‘The Destitute Dervish’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Polina Tambakaki (KCL).
Tuesday 5 February 17.30 - 19.30
Christian Identity in the Seventh Century: the Case of Anastasios of Sinai
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Yannis Papadogiannakis (KCL).
Thursday 7 February 18.00 - 20.00
the 22nd Annual Runciman Lecture: Constantinople: the medieval Muslim perspective
Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus
A lecture by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, OBE, FBA, FRSE, FR HIst.Soc.
Saturday 9 February 10.00 - 18.00
Constructing Clothing: Exploring the Making of Dress
Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building, Strand Campus
Part of Applied Arts Workshop series.
Tuesday 12 February 17.30-1930
There's Something About the Family: Kinship, Desire, and Crisis in the Contemporary Greek Film
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Modern Greek Studies seminar with Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford).
Tuesday 26 February 17.30 - 19.30 - CANCELLED
Plato in Byzantium
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Borje Byden (Stockholm University)
We hope to be able to reschedule this talk at a later date
Monday 4 March 18.30 - 20.30
Language communication: how verbs make sense
Great Hall, King's Building, Strand Campus
A lecture by Professor Georgios Babiniotis (University of Athens; Hellenic Foundation for Culture; Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation)
Tuesday 5 March 17.30 - 19.30
Literature Tackles History: the transformation of the public sphere in Greece in the late 19th and early 20th century
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Modern Greek Studies seminar with Professor Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Tuesday 12 March 17.30 - 19.30 - CANCELLED
Holy Haulage: Shipping Hagia Sophia to Palestine
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Konstantin Klein (University of Bamberg)
Tuesday 19 March 17.30 - 19.30
Aspects of Cyprus in the Oeuvre of Kazantzakis, Sikelianos and Seferis
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Afroditi Athanasopoulou (University of Cyprus)\
Saturday 23 March 10.00 - 18.00
Production in pieces: Making Mosaics from Antiquity to the Present
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King's Building
Workshops in collaboration with MoL and V&A
Part of the Applied Arts workshop series.
Tuesday 26 March 17.30 - 19.30
Byzantine Tiles of Nicomedia: Works in Public and Private Collections
K0.31, King's Building, Strand Campus
A Byzantine Studies seminar with Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)
Friday 26 April 11.00 - 18.00
C. P. Cavafy: the long road to Ithaca
Strand Campus
A symposium to mark 150 years from the poet's birth.
Friday 10 May - Saturday 11 May
Reading Armenia
K2.29, Council Room, Strand Campus
The colloquium will examine the role of Armenian language sources in Byzantine and Arabic Studies.
Thursday 16 May - Friday 17 May
Bridging the Balkans
K2.29, Council Room, King's Building, Strand Campus
A conference to mark the centenary of the Treaty of London, May 1913.
Tuesday 21 May 18.00 - 19.30
Prof. David Ricks Inaugural Lecture: 'Cavafy's quarrel with Tennyson'
Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King's Building Strand Campus
In this lecture a clash of minds and styles between two great poets from different literary milieux is explored.
For details of events at the Hellenic Observatory, LSE, please visit their seminars page or their events listing.